| With all of the warnings about keeping your personal | | | | old girlfriend contacted me, I never realized how |
| information private from would be stalkers or to | | | | vulnerable I was.Of course I do appreciate the fact |
| prevent identity theft, it's actually shocking how easy it | | | | that technology allows me to keep track of the people |
| is to dig up information on people.Unfortunately, I'm no | | | | that I want to keep track of. My teenage daughter, for |
| exception to this rule. I was in the office one day and | | | | example. We gave her a cell phone for her birthday |
| received an email from an ex girlfriend that I dated in | | | | after she begged and pleaded with us. Our first |
| college. It was not a pleasant surprise since we didn't | | | | response was to say no because we know how |
| end our relationship on the best of notes, but I was | | | | much she loves to talk on the phone. We figured that |
| cordial and asked her how she found me. She said | | | | she would forget all about overage charges if she |
| she used a database that specialized in finding the | | | | were in a conversation with one of her equally chatty |
| email addresses of people. She didn't harass me or | | | | girlfriends. Then we decided to give in and let her have |
| anything like that.She only contacted me to let me | | | | it because it's a dangerous world out there and this |
| know of a reunion of college friends that was going to | | | | way she would be able to call us in case of an |
| occur near the school that we attended. I made sure | | | | emergency.Now I can call her when I want to know |
| to ask her if it was ok to bring my wife, not that I was | | | | where she is and who she's with. She hates getting |
| going to go, but just to let her know I was married. She | | | | these calls from me, but I feel better knowing that I can |
| said that it would be fine, since she was bringing her | | | | track her down. The phone also has a GPS chip that |
| husband. My ego went right out the window. Later that | | | | would allow us to pinpoint her location if she failed to |
| evening I told my wife the story, expecting to get a | | | | answer the phone.I am now considering getting an |
| chuckle from her, she was not amused.I decided to go | | | | unlisted number for my home phone, for the sake of |
| online to see exactly how easy it was. I typed my | | | | discretion. I don't know how much good it will do, since |
| name into one of the popular search endings and was | | | | my address is on the web, but at least I can kid myself |
| surprised to see my last few addresses show up, | | | | by believing that I can still have a little privacy.Gregg |
| including my current one. It also showed my phone | | | | Hall is an author living in Navarre Florida. |
| number. Sure, I'm listed in the phone book, but until my | | | | |